Casual Rape, Pornography? Yes please. And I will pay for it too!

I haven’t written in a while, but the recent flurry of outrage about Miley Cyrus and the VMAs has gotten me worked up.

I watched the whole thing. Like a bad car accident, but I couldn’t look away. But I was confused. Why was everyone so mad? Didn’t they see Miley’s video? It was pretty much identical to her stage performance. What I don’t understand is why no one said a word about Robin Thicke (aside from his beetle juice inspired costume).

What. is. wrong. with. us????

Robin Thicke has an entire song being the hit of the summer which was basically about rape. About how no really means yes. With lines like “I’ll give you something big enough to tear your ass in two”.

And yet I saw a mom the other day dancing away with her young daughter to it.

Marriage? Who needs that? Not Robin Thicke: “You don’t need no papers Hey, hey, hey\= That man is not your maker”. He just needs to have sex with you. That’s all ladies. And it is okay to be used that way, because he is humming a great tune.

I mean at one point Robin had someone else he was having sex with (“Yeah, I had a bitch, but she ain’t bad as you”), but it is a higher calling to be the “dirtier” girl. And after you “didn’t pick” Robin, he can take you anyways: “Do it like it hurt, like it hurt What you don’t like work? Baby can you breathe?”

Until of course you will give in because no really means yes, right?

And then the world is up in arms because Miley Cyrus personifies Robin Thicke’s line: “But you’re an animal, baby it’s in your nature”. We don’t want our girls to SEE someone acting like that, only to HEAR that doing this, acting like this, and letting men treat you like this is not only okay, but wonderful.

We pay money to have a man tell you it is good to have to give up any sort of purity when a he comes along. Even if he pressures you and has to drag it out of you.

My fight to raise my girls as good, well rounded people is more difficult every single day that someone feels it is okay to market this type of music.

i hate that song. but more, i hate that no one else hates it. all of my friends have blown me off when i talk about how the lyrics of songs matter. hopefully this ‘miley debacle’ will start a conversation about how numb we are to what we hear. thanks for posting!